Bihar deputy CM Sushil Modi gets Tejashwi Yadav's bungalow

LJP president Pashupati Kumar Paras has been allotted 11 Stand Road building

Press Trust of India  |  Patna 

Sushil Modi, Nitish Kumar
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi at a meeting, in Patna. Photo: PTI

Deputy chief minister of and BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi has been allotted a bungalow - the same as occupied by his predecessor Tejaswi Prasad Yadav, son of RJD president

Fifteen new ministers, 14 from the BJP quota and of the LJP were allotted bungalows in place of their incumbents in the previous Grand Alliance government, according to an office order of the Building Construction department dated August 29.


While will move into 5 Desh Ratna Marg bungalow, its previous occupant Tejaswi Yadav will now get 1 Polo Road bungalow of

The bungalow allotted to Tejashwi's Yadav's elder brother and former health minister Tej Pratap Yadav at 3, Deshratan Marg has been marked for the chairperson of the legislative council.

After new office order, the department would now serve eviction notices on the present occupants of the RJD and Congress, who were part of the Grand Alliance government, which came to power in November, 2015.

Interestingly, however, the two former Congress ministers including former education minister Ashok Choudhary and Animal Husbandry Department minister Awadhesh Kumar Singh have been allowed to retain their government bungalows triggering political speculations.

Among others, Agriculture minister Prem Kumar has got 3, Circular Road bunglow, Road Construction department minister Nand Kishore Yadav 2, Strand Road), land revenue minister Ram Narayan Mandal (12, Strand Road) and Tourism minister Pramod Kumar 4, Strand Road.

LJP president and Union minister Ramvilas Paswan's brother Pashupati Kumar Paras, who is in the Animal Husbandry department in the new cabinet of Nitish Kumar, has been allotted 11 Stand Road building.

Asked about possible in taking away bunglow from Tejaswi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav among others, senior BJP leader and Road Construction department said it was a routine exercise by the department to provide residence to ministers of the day.

First Published: Wed, August 30 2017. 19:53 IST